London

Well, after we concluded our week in Paris, it was time to meet up with the rest of our program in London!! To the train station we go!!

When we got there everything took SIGNIFICANTLY longer than anyone expected (believe it or not we did get there early!) so that adventure ended up in all of us RUSHING through customs and RUNNING to the train!! I was first through customs so the next five or so followed me when the worker told me to run to the first cart of the train! So we many of us ran on, relieved that we had BARELY made it before the train left. We had no idea where the rest of our group was, it was kind of a "fend for yourselves" type episode!!

Unfortunately we didn't realize that our seat assignments were not together.. and everyone else's tickets were for the complete OTHER side of the train!!!! So they had to walk all the way through the 15 carts, but the conductor got mad half way through and told them just to sit there!! After Lauren walked the train from start to finish and realized there was no sign of the other half of our group, we realized that HALF OF OUR GROUP HAD BEEN LEFT IN PARIS!!! What a nightmare! It was actually pretty funny, and luckily everything worked out in the end. The others were able to catch the next train a few hours after and meet us in London!

London was AWESOME!! we saw...

Stonehenge.
(and after a 45 min. audio tour I still can't tell you why those boulders are standing there)

Platform 9 3/4 at the King's Cross Station

wicked

the guards (all over multiple times)

Oliver Twist!

We went Punting

The Great Hall where Harry Potter is filmed. (oxford)

The IASB

so many awesome castles!

Les Miserables... SUCH a great play!

TONS of heffalumps all over the city!!

The London Eye

Big Ben of course! =)

We really did so many things, pictures, nor words, can capture them all. This is just a really brief insight to give you a small TASTE of some of our adventures!! I figure nobody really wants to read the stories anyways, so pictures work okay =)